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JD– I have been leading Small Home Groups now for decades. Three decades as an Evangelical leader, and the last decade as a lay leader in the Catholic church after my wife and I returned to the church 14 years ago. We started a household movement in our local parish 12 years ago. This is such a serendipity, as this week, my wife and I will be talking about loneliness in America on our weekly radio program on Catholic Radio Indy., by the way, also we have just developed a guidebook on how to start these groups in Catholic parishes if anyone is interested my email address is 1doanep@gmail.com.

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>> "I think we’ve maybe gone too far with [specific programming] — so many things like, ‘these are the things for young adults,’ and ‘these are the things for families with kids,’ and ‘these are the things for our older parishioners,’” said Gettinger.

This is a problem in my parish. I've volunteered with the youth group since I was a youth, and I know all the youth ministry people, but I don't really get to know the choir, or the liturgy volunteers, or a lot of the other groupings in the parish. There's even a divide in youth-adjacent areas like religious education: there are some catechists that have been teaching for over a decade, but I may know not much more about them than their name.

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